What is a good weighted GPA

[Anonymous]

I am just wondering what is a good weighted GPA

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school and how they weight. Also depends on what kind of courses the kid took that were weighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the school and how they weight. Also depends on what kind of courses the kid took that were weighted.

This. Some schools go up to an 8.0.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't matter. If your kid is a junior, it is what it is now.

[Anonymous]

Focus on unweighted. I think that is why my kid got in everywhere. Fewer AP/honors kids have a true 4.0.

[Anonymous]

No such thing as a good weighted GPA. Every school has their own system, so it's in effect meaningless beyond HS class rank. Colleges will recalculate and use their own ways of evaluating course rigor. Ignore weighted GPA outside your own schoo.

[Anonymous]

/school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Focus on unweighted. I think that is why my kid got in everywhere. Fewer AP/honors kids have a true 4.0.

Yes. Unweighted GPA + rigor is the right way to think about it.

[Anonymous]

depends entirely on your school's weighting policy, which varies district to district and also with privates.

In my kids school, the valedictorian had something like a 4.70. My DS had a 4.6 and was in the top 3% of his class. Honors classes got a .5 bump and AP and DE got a full 1.0 bump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am just wondering what is a good weighted GPA

One that can get you into the schools you are targeting.

[Anonymous]

4.0uw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:depends entirely on your school's weighting policy, which varies district to district and also with privates.

In my kids school, the valedictorian had something like a 4.70. My DS had a 4.6 and was in the top 3% of his class. Honors classes got a .5 bump and AP and DE got a full 1.0 bump.

Our (non-DMV) DC had a 4.0 uw/4.49w and wasn’t even top 10 percent in their class of 400+. But DC got into all schools applied to and had 40+ DE credits that transferred (including their “A” letter grade so will start off with a very nice cumulative GPA!).

So it’s all in what you make of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No such thing as a good weighted GPA. Every school has their own system, so it's in effect meaningless beyond HS class rank. Colleges will recalculate and use their own ways of evaluating course rigor. Ignore weighted GPA outside your own schoo.

Yes, it's a bizarre question. It depends upon the high school. some tap out at 4.0. Others at 6.0 for those who have taken college courses. FWIW the 75th percentile entering at UVA last year had a 4.51 weighted. ask your high school counselor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:depends entirely on your school's weighting policy, which varies district to district and also with privates.

In my kids school, the valedictorian had something like a 4.70. My DS had a 4.6 and was in the top 3% of his class. Honors classes got a .5 bump and AP and DE got a full 1.0 bump.

Our (non-DMV) DC had a 4.0 uw/4.49w and wasn’t even top 10 percent in their class of 400+. But DC got into all schools applied to and had 40+ DE credits that transferred (including their “A” letter grade so will start off with a very nice cumulative GPA!).

So it’s all in what you make of it.

Where did your kid end up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:depends entirely on your school's weighting policy, which varies district to district and also with privates.

In my kids school, the valedictorian had something like a 4.70. My DS had a 4.6 and was in the top 3% of his class. Honors classes got a .5 bump and AP and DE got a full 1.0 bump.

Our (non-DMV) DC had a 4.0 uw/4.49w and wasn’t even top 10 percent in their class of 400+. But DC got into all schools applied to and had 40+ DE credits that transferred (including their “A” letter grade so will start off with a very nice cumulative GPA!).

So it’s all in what you make of it.

Where did your kid end up?

At a school DC loved and one who loved them back: WVU.

It checked all the right boxes: direct admit to a highly-selective program, took 75%+ of DE credits, generous non-need merit aid, mountain air, away from mom-n-dad, and a respectable Marching Band (with a director willing to work with the wonky scheduling that clinicals and ROTC require).

JMU would've been the in-state choice but doesn't have an on-site, teaching hospital and DC hated UVA.....so over the Mountains and thru the woods, down the Country Roads we go to WVU.